The Death of the Kidnapper

Lin Xiao busied himself untying the captives and settling them on the ground, while glancing at him and saying:

"Sure, if you join my sect, I'll teach you."

Mo Yuanjiao didn't notice that he said 'my sect', and only asked excitedly:

"Where is your sect?"

The fortune-teller hadn't lied to him! There really was an opportunity here! He felt a surge of joy in his heart—wasn't this the very opportunity he was looking for?

Lin Xiao didn't say it directly. After thinking for a moment, he simply said:

"Just keep walking east. If you can make it there, it means we are destined."

Hearing him say this, Mo Yuanjiao wasn't anxious at all; instead, he became even more excited!

"Alright! Just wait for me at your sect! Hahaha!"

Lin Xiao untied everyone, then asked those who still had some strength left to carry the dying ones out of this hollowed-out cavern and into the corridor to rest.

Mo Yuanjiao cheerfully hoisted a weak person from the ground onto his back and strode briskly toward the corridor, full of energy.

Lin Xiao also carried a person over. After setting the person down, he took out the storage bag that Sun Yigao had left with him.

He knew that Yigao refined pills every day. Since the herbs they had brought back from the Green Wilderness Mystic Realm were more than enough, Yigao usually stored the refined pills in the storage bag.

The situation was urgent, so Yigao shouldn't blame him for opening his storage bag without permission.

He opened the storage bag and rummaged through it, taking out Rejuvenation Pills and Origin Consolidating Pills, and then handed them out for everyone to feed to the weak.

Seeing that everyone's complexions had improved and their breathing had gradually steadied after taking the pills, Lin Xiao let out a long sigh of relief.

Yigao's pills were truly effective!

He then told everyone to wait for him there, saying he would be right back.

Lin Xiao turned around and returned to the large cavern.

The black-robed man was still sealed in place, completely motionless.

Lin Xiao had no arrogant thoughts of using him as a sparring partner to practice his combat skills. He immediately took out the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array disc, activated it, and placed the array directly at the black-robed man's feet.

After taking out one hundred spirit stones from his private stash, Lin Xiao's spirit stone inventory dwindled to single digits.

But he didn't feel the least bit of heartache as he directly tossed the spirit stones into the array disc.

Upon receiving the funds, the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array activated immediately!

Having the experience from his first time operating it, Lin Xiao skillfully unleashed all the powerful killing moves of the Yin-Yang Life and Death Array. In the blink of an eye, the black-robed man inside the array was torn to shreds, his soul completely destroyed.

Lin Xiao didn't look away. He stared intently at the black-robed man in the array, who had been killed right after being unsealed before he could even react.

This was the first person he had killed in his two lifetimes.

This feeling was not good at all.

He just wanted to quietly cultivate immortality.

He didn't want to become a cold-blooded maniac who killed without blinking.

Although it seemed like the cultivation world was full of slaughter, he still yearned for a truly ethereal and immortal-like cultivation journey.

However, this could be considered eliminating a menace for the people...

Sigh.

He still had to be careful. On the long path of cultivation, a moment of carelessness could easily lead to hands stained with blood and blinded eyes.

Lin Xiao fell silent.

No matter what the current social rules were, they could not alter his true nature.

No matter what the laws of survival were, they could not disturb his original heart.

This was the kind of cultivation he wanted.

[Ding—Congratulations to the host for gaining enlightenment. The quality of the Original Essence Heart Sutra has been upgraded, advancing to an SS-grade mental cultivation method!]

!

A mental cultivation method could actually be upgraded!

Lin Xiao was extremely surprised.

The Original Essence Heart Sutra was originally an S-grade mental cultivation method, which, according to the cultivation world's terminology, was a low-tier Heaven-grade method. But now it had been upgraded to SS-grade, meaning it had become a mid-tier Heaven-grade method!

He hadn't expected to reap such a reward on this trip.

Lin Xiao suppressed the urge to immediately browse through the upgraded Original Essence Heart Sutra and began to worry about how he could claim this spirit stone mine as his own.

It was too unsafe to leave it here. Today it was this black-robed cultivator; what if someone else discovered it next time?

Speaking of which, this spirit stone mine must not have formed in a short time.

But for it to remain undiscovered for so long, and considering he had only accidentally fallen into it after entering that spatial hole, there must be something isolating the leakage of spiritual energy.

He just didn't know if it was natural or man-made.

If it was man-made, did that mean this place had an owner...?

Probably not. After all, that black-robed cultivator had been kidnapping people here for so many days. If there were an owner, they would have discovered it long ago.

He would just assume it was ownerless!

Since it was ownerless, he wouldn't hesitate to accept it!

[Ding—Detected a low-grade spirit stone mine. The sect possesses a low-grade spirit vein that has not yet generated a spirit stone mine. Would the host like to bind and connect this spirit stone mine with the sect's low-grade spirit vein?]

The system was delivering warmth; how could Lin Xiao refuse such a gift? He decisively chose yes!

[Host has confirmed the binding connection. The connection will begin in one minute. Because the binding connection involves spatial displacement, please ensure that there is no one else in the spirit stone mine, otherwise they will be displaced back to the sect along with the space. The connection process will take two hours. Please take note, host.]

Two hours!

Lin Xiao jumped in fright. It didn't matter to him; if he was transported back to the sect, he could just come out again.

But there were still forty-nine other people in this mine!

He absolutely could not bring these people back!

Thinking of this, he immediately went out to gather everyone and said:

"Everyone, everyone, it's dangerous here! We need to leave immediately!"

Clearly, the words of Lin Xiao, who had just saved them, carried a lot of weight. The young boys and girls didn't doubt him at all upon hearing this; they immediately got up and ran outside.

Lin Xiao pushed them from behind with his spiritual energy to help them run faster. Rushing as fast as they could, the group finally arrived below the entrance.

There was no time to waste. Lin Xiao grabbed one person in each arm and charged upward using his Air-Treading Technique.

After tossing them out, he immediately turned back to grab two more.

Going back and forth like this twenty-four times, he finally got everyone else out, leaving only the last person.

At this moment, Mo Yuanjiao was staring intently at Lin Xiao with shining eyes.

"You are so young, yet so powerful! Your sect must definitely be extraordinary!"

Lin Xiao, however, had no time to waste words with him; the two hours were almost up.

He immediately stepped forward to grab Mo Yuanjiao and bring him up, but unexpectedly, Mo Yuanjiao directly opened his arms toward him with a look of excitement and said:

"Brother! Bring it on!"

Lin Xiao: ...What if I don't really want to hold you?

If it weren't for the anxious and exhausted guard, he wouldn't even want to take him out.

Why should such a chuunibyou teenager even go out?

Might as well just let him go back to the sect with him.

Lin Xiao dodged his open arms, bent down, and hoisted him horizontally over his shoulder.

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't do this, brother! How can you treat me differently!"

Ignoring his resistance, Lin Xiao dashed toward the cave entrance at top speed.

Outside the cave, a group of young boys and girls shivered in the pitch-black dense forest.

Guard Mo saw them come out one by one, but he alone didn't see his young master, making him feel somewhat anxious in his heart.